Warwickshire author analyses Warwickshire poet

by JLS
for the GC

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Grice was born in what it is literally (in a manner of speaking) called "The heart of England" -- Warwickshire. Literally, he was born in Staffordshire, because Harborne belonged to Warwickshire till not so long ago.

Anyway, there is an English author who was born in Warwickshire, also, called William Shakespeare.

Anthony J. Gilbert, in volume 76 of "English Studies" analyses Shakespeare's plays in the light of the 'Gricean maxims'. It is an interesting thing because he bores soon enough of what Grice calls the 'schematic sequence':

A says p
B says q
A replies r,

etc.

and speaks, instead of 'self-talk' -- Hamlet says, "To be or not to be". To whom? To Hamlet? Yes. -- but this is a play, so he is uttering the disjunction to the spectator too. And there's also the unconscious, which Shakespeare failed to know the first thing about!

The ref.:

"Shakespearean self-talk, the Gricean maxims and the unconscious"
by
Anthony J. Gilbert
English Studies, 1744-4217, Volume 76, Issue 3, 1995, Pages 221 – 237